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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "i have a new email address!" (this SPAM email was sent to thousands of people)
• This email message is a fake lottery scam. Consider the following facts about real lotteries:
  
  1. They don't notify winners by email.
  2. You can't win without first buying a lottery ticket.
  3. They don't randomly select email addresses to award prizes to.
  4. They don't use free email accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc) to communicate with you.
  5. They don't tell you to call a mobile phone number.
  6. They don't tell you to keep your winnings secret.
  7. They will never ask a winner to pay any fees to receive a prize!
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • care4u006@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)
  • koseffa@yahoo.com

Fraud email example:

From: =?iso-8859-1?q?jdon=20cbest?= <care4u006@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: welllott@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:25:35 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!!


I have a new email address!You can now email me at: care4u006@yahoo.co.uk

BRITISH LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS.

THE OAKROOM LOUNGE.

21 PICCADILLY LONDON. W1B 0BH.



FROM: THE DESK OF THE MANAGEMENT

BRITISH LOTTERY LONDON, UK.IN COLLARBORATION

WITH SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY

NIGERIA{SPDC}AND BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY.

PRICE AWARD DEPARTMENT.

REF Nº: EGS/2251256003/05

BATCH Nº:14/0017/1PD

WINNING

NOTIFICATION

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We the Board and Management of British Lottery London,

uk wishes to inform you the results of the E-mail

address ballot lottery international program held on

23 day of may, 2006. Your email account have been

picked as a winner of £950,000.00 (NINE HUNDRED AND

FIFTY THOUSAND BRITISH POUNDS STERLING) .

This results is today released to you and your email

address attached in the A Category. All email

addresses were selected through a computer ballot

system in which your email address was selected as one

of the lucky winners.

Your lucky numbers are: and bonus ball number:

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Due to mix up of some numbers and names, we ask that

you keep your winning information confidential until

your claims has been processed and your money Remitted

to you. This is part of our security protocol to avoid

double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program

by some participants.



All participants were selected randomly from World

Wide Web site through computer draw system and

extracted from over 100,000 companies. This promotion

takes place biannually.

To file for your claim/winning, please contact our

Legal Department (BARR. KOSEFF WELL ) DIAMONDS

CHAMBERS [EMAIL:KOSEFFA@YAHOO.com] for processing

and

payment of your claims/winning. Quote your

reference/batch numbers in your correspondence with us

and you are advised to not to expose your numbers to

avoid double clamming or voiding of your winning.





Please note in order to avoid unnecessary delays and

complications quote your reference number and batch

numbers in all correspondence. Should there be any

change of addresses do inform our agent as soon as

possible.

Furthermore your winning numbers fall within our

london region and you are required to contact our

representative office in london

Dextrabank as soon as you recieve this mail

to enable them file your papers for claim/payment of

your prize. ANYONE BELOW EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE CAN

MAKE HIS/ HER CLAIM IN PROXY THROUGH EITHER OF THE

PARENTS.

Once again congratulations from our members of staff

and thank you for being one of the winners of our

promotional program.

Sincerely Yours

Kate Henshaw (Mrs.)

International Relation Officer.

Executives:

Dr. P. Swier (CEO), Mr. Gerald Goodman (Manager

Foreign Operations), Mr. Franklyn Van Der Weijden

(Manager Domestic Banking Operations), Dr. James

Williams (Director International Credit Department),

Mrs. Lonni K Anderson (Legal Representative), Mrs.

Lyudmyla Marchukova(Regional Manager), Mr. Stephen

Boer (Chairman), Mr. Chris Moritz(International

Relation Officer).

- jdon cbest

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